Landform Regions Soil Vegetation Weather and Climate Types

Landform Regions

Soil & Vegetation

Weather and Climate

Types of Precipitation

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What are three types of landform regions?

Shield Highlands Lowlands

Oil and natural gas are mined in which landform region?

Interior Plains

“Cottage country” is a characteristic of this landform region.

Canadian Shield

Rocky, flat and rounded hills characterize the appearance of this landform region.

Canadian Shield

What are the 3 major divisions of the Western Cordillera?

Coastal Mountains, Interior Plateau, Eastern Mountains

This is the geologically youngest landform region.

Western Cordillera

What process involves water moving downward, dissolving the chemical nutrients in the soil?

Leaching

What is the typical characteristic of a leached soil?

Poor, often thin, topsoil layer.

What is the process that creates calcified soil profiles?

Typically in dry climate soil profiles. Caused by the upward movement of water. The minerals that were in the water are now left behind in the topsoil layers.

What is the typical soil profile of a calcified soil?

Thick black topsoil layer is created.

This part of soil is originally from rock.

Minerals (Parent Material)

What is climate?

The condition of the atmosphere considered over a long period of time.

At what rate does air cool as it increases in elevation (altitude)?

1 deg. C / 100 m

What is weather?

The condition of the atmosphere considered over a short period of time, usually one day

How do air masses affect weather and climate?

Air takes on the characteristics of what it passes over (temperature/ moisture)

This side of a mountain receives little precipitation.

Leeward (rain shadow)

This side of a mountain receives little precipitation

Leeward

Mountain barriers cause this type of precipitation

Orographic (relief)

Intensive heating of the earth’s surface can lead to this type of precipitation

Convectional

More intense precipitation events are created when a ________ air mass moves into a _________ air mass

Cold; warm

When two air masses collide this type of precipitation occurs

Cyclonic

Landform Regions

Soil and Vegetation

Climate and Weather

Types of Precipitation

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This is the largest landform regions in Canada.

Canadian Shield

This landform region has no vegetation

Innuitian Mountains

This landform region has minerals that have not been exploited.

Innuitian Mountains

Oakville is located in this landform region.

Great Lakes St. Lawrence Lowlands

This landform region has Canada’s largest urban centers

Great Lakes St. Lawrence Lowlands

Larger rock particles allow water to drain quickly through soil created a _____ topsoil layer

Thin

The ideal topsoil layer for agricultural production is slightly _________

Calcified

The southernmost vegetation region

Deciduous forest region

This vegetation regions is located above the tree line

Tundra region

Which two vegetation regions are located in the same climate region?

Mixed forest and deciduous forest regions

______ take on the characteristics of the surface they are sitting over.

Air Masses

A warm ocean current will have what effect on surrounding coastal areas?

Created warmer, more moist areas

What are the 3 global climate/weath er factors?

Latitude, Ocean Currents, Winds & Air Masses

A large body of water has this effect on climate.

Moderating effect

Solar radiation is effected by this climate factor

Latitude

Name the 3 types of Precipitation

Orographic, Cyclonic, and Convectional

Why does precipitation occur?

Air cools as it rises The cooling of air causes the water vapour to condense

These regions will receive Convectional Precipitation.

Prairies & Ontario

The Atlantic Maritimes will commonly receive this type of precipitation.

Cyclonic

The Wet Adiabatic Lapse Rate occurs at this pace.

0. 5 deg. C / 100 m